Andrew Ross Sorkin Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a published American author and an award-winning journalist.

He has been a journalist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of Squawk Box, the signature morning program on CNBC. He is a 2001 founder of DealBook, the online daily financial report published by The Times of which he is also an editor-at-large.

Sorkin is a co-creator of Billions, a drama series that aired on Showtime. He is an interviewer recognized for his nuanced and incisive long-form conversations with many famous people, and won an Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Live Interview.

He has been broken news of many mergers and acquisitions and has been at the front of Wall Street news, reporting on the financial crisis of 2008 as well as how it affected Wall Street. He also reported on the government bailout of major investment banks and news of deals.

Sorkin often appears on national television and radio programs. He also has been a lecturer at universities across the country. He has been on shows such as Today Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, NewsHour, Talk of the Nation on NPR, and others.

In 2004, Andrew won a Gerald Loeb Award for breaking the news of IBM’s sale of its business to Lenovo. He was a finalist as well for his DealBook column in the commentary category. The author has won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news in 2005, winning again in 2006. He was named a Young Global Leader in 2007 by the World Economic Forum.

He is a co-chair of The New York Public Library’s Business Leadership Council. Andrew also belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations and graduated from Cornell University. Andrew originally started writing for The Times in 1995 when he had not yet graduated from high school. He resides in Manhattan.

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis– and Themselves is a 2009 book by Andrew Ross Sorkin. This book won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and the 2010 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. It was adapted in 2011 as a movie for HBO Films. Sorkin was a co-producer and it was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards.

This is the first behind the scenes and moment by moment account of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression turned into a worldwide tsunami. Whether it’s inside the Lehman Brothers’ corner office or the secret meetings in South Korea or the corridors of Washington, this is the story of some of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics, struggling with success, failure, ego, greed, and the fate of the world economy.

Timothy Geithner was then the president of the Federal Reserve of New York and told the Treasury secretary Henry M. Paulson that they’ve got ‘to get some foam down on the runway’ regarding the crash that the financial system was about to experience globally.

This book tells the story with all of the drama and turmoil, showing new never disclosed before details and expanding upon the way that decisions are made on Wall Street for the past decade. This is a true story that is more than just an examination of the banks that were thought to be too big to fail. It’s a thriller from real life with names who thought that they could not fail. Were they right in the end or in for a rude awakening? Find out this and more by reading this book!

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History– and How It Shattered a Nation is a 2025 book by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The book was not only an instant New York Times bestseller but it was also selected as a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Financial Times, The Economist, and Bloomberg. It was also nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Readers’ Favorite History & Biography.

This is a history of the 2008 banking crisis, a time that was horrible for many. This is a narrative of the most infamous stock market crash to ever happen in history. It goes into history but also brings it to life, pumping it with all the dramatic action of a thriller. This book gets to the bottom of all of the greed, the blind optimism, and ultimately the human folly that led to a collapse that defined a decade. Today people are still seeing the ripple effects of that happening.

The year was 1929 and the world was in shock, watching as the bull market on Wall Street suddenly went into a free fall. Fortunes were wiped completely out and a depression was then set off that would go on to shape a generation. Behind all of the ticker tapes and the traders besides themselves with panic, another drama came out that involved visionaries, fraudsters, titans, dreamers, euphoria, ruin, and more.

Sorkin has tons of access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, and takes readers inside this crash chaos. He takes them behind the scenes and introduces them to characters who are larger than life whose ambition but also naivete in a boom ended up resulting in disaster. The highs and the lows of this time mirror the world of today. Markets soar, political tensions build, and financial influence fights end up playing out once more.

This is a story about power, money, psychology, and the belief that history will not repeat itself because this time around will be different. It features alarm bells that were paid no mind, financiers who ended up falling from grace, and even skeptics who thought they saw this crash coming in advance but no one paid attention to them until it ended up being too late.

This is a huge book and it has been able to tell the story of a financial crisis that was larger than life and the biggest market collapse to ever occur. With lessons included, could this book provide things we can learn from today? Check out Too Big to Fail from Andrew Ross Sorkin to find out.